Art
Five NYC Art Shows to See This Week
From AbEx giant Cy Twombly to explorations of assimilation by Serena Chang to the politics of prettiness in the portraits of Marie Laurencin, these shows deserve close looking.
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Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg’s Fairytales With No Heroes
The pair tell a grand drama of depravity and degradation, sometimes enacted by official powers like Church and State, other times by rogue players.
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Allan Wexler Magnifies the Absurdity of the Everyday
In his first exhibition in nearly a decade, the artist-builder presents sculptures that are alternatively strange, optimistic, and critical.
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The Other Almanac Is Your Artsy Field Guide for 2025
This annual publication inverts the almanac form, offering art by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, writing by Naomi Klein, and poems elegizing the plants of Gaza.
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The Bunny Museum in LA Looks to Rebuild After Fires
The co-founders of the world's largest collection of rabbit-themed items want to recreate "the hoppiest place in the world."
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Hidden Woman Portrait Found Beneath Picasso Masterpiece
Researchers detected the mysterious figure in the early-blue period painting "Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto" (1901).
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Vilcek Foundation Doubles Prizes in the Arts, Honors Immigrant Curators
Doubling its contributions to immigrant art professionals, the foundation recognizes Oluremi C. Onabanjo, Donna Honarpisheh, Aimé Iglesias Lukin, and Bernardo Mosqueira for their curatorial work.
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Before Black, There Was Blue
In Black in Blues, Imani Perry reaches to the height of the sky and the depth of the ocean, casting the history of blue as one of both triumph and tragedy, possibility and limitation.
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$6M Banana Buyer Justin Sun Sues David Geffen Over $78M Sculpture
Sun claims Giacommetti’s “Le Nez” was sold to Geffen without his permission in a fraudulent transaction orchestrated by his former art advisor.
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Fareed Armaly Rejects German Prize, Citing “Disturbing Trend of Censorship”
The artist and curator turned down the Käthe Kollwitz Prize from the Academy of the Arts, citing the German state’s crackdown on advocacy for Palestinian rights.
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We Are Also the Darkness After the Big Explosion
Nolan Oswald sees the pre- and postcolonial worlds as contemporaneous and interlocking.
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Prettiness Is Political for Marie Laurencin
The artist has a point: Why is aesthetic pleasure often relegated to the sidelines of art? Why paint rotting fish when you can paint pretty femmes?